As I read Tom Verducci's story today about slippery balls in the World Series, I remembered an experiment Billy Koch conducted in the Blue Jays' clubhouse 17 years ago. The baseball used in 2000 was juiced, Koch insisted, and he set out to prove it.
I watched. Then I carried out my own experiment.
Afterward, I wrote a story for a personal website I operated back then called TruNorth Baseball. When I retrieved that piece from my archives, it had a familiar ring to it.
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Billy Koch sat in front of his locker, mutilating a baseball with a pair of scissors.